"Spanish Ladies", also known as "We'll Rant and We'll Roar" and "Brisbane Ladies" is a British sailing song, describing a voyage from Spain to the Downs. The Downs is a roadstead (an area of sheltered, favorable sea) in the southern North Sea near the English Channel off the east Kent coast, between the North and the South Foreland in southern England. Another version is known as "Talcahuano Girls", a song about the early 19th century Pacific sperm and right whale fishing. The oldest mention of the song appears in the 1796 logbook of HMS Nellie, making it likely an invention of the Napoleonic era. The timing of the mention in the Nellie's logbook suggests that the song was created during the War of the First Coalition (1793–96), when the Royal Navy carried supplies to Spain to aid its resistance to revolutionary France. The song predates the proper emergence of the sea shanty. Shanties were the work songs of merchant sailors, rather than naval ones and were banned in the Royal Navy. It was recorded by Bob Roberts on Breeze for a Bargema (1981), A.L. Lloyd on Leviathan! Ballads & Songs of the Whaling Trade (1967) and others. It was printed in Bell's Early Ballads Illustrative of History, Traditions, and Customs and Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England (1877), Chappell's The Ballad Literature and Popular Music of the Olden Time (1859), Creighton and Senior's Traditional Songs of Nova Scotia (1960), Dixon's Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry of England (1846), Hugill's Shanties from the Seven Seas: Shipboard Work-Songs from the Great Days of Sail (1961), Hugill's Songs of the Sea (McGraw-Hill, 1977), Huntington's The Gam: More Songs the Whalemen Sang (2014), Karpeles' Folk Songs from Newfoundland (1970), Karpeles' The Crystal Spring: English Folk Songs Collected by Cecil Sharp (1975), Kinsey's Songs of the Sea (1989), Mackenzie's Ballads and Sea Songs from Nova Scotia (1963), Palmer's The Oxford Book of Sea Songs (1986), Ranson's Songs of the Wexford Coast (1975), Roud and Bishop's The New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs (2002), Sharp's Folk songs from Somerset (1909), Sharp's One Hundred English Folk Songs (1916), Shay's American Sea Songs and Chanteys (1948) and Stone's Sea Songs and Ballads (1906). It appears in the Roud Folk Song Index as #687.